But as Jim points out in Chapter 11, 'The Beginning of the End for the Dollar', this reader's argument is misleading at best — and downright dangerous at worst. The author Jim Richards, 35-year Wall Street veteran and financial warfare analyst for the Pentagon, gives you a complete blueprint on how to shelter your The purpose of this book — and ofJim Rickards' StrategicIntelligence— is to Jim pennedThe Big Dropbecause the themes that willspark the next crisis are The dollar was losing purchasing power, dropping by half from 1977 to 1981; U.S. inflation was over 50 percent during those five years. Starting in 1979, the